The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling, the funnier the fall

Strapped in like a climber, he falls about twenty meters into the film star’s place. At the wheel of a screaming racing car, he performs a series of precise rolls. Wearing a fireproof outfit, he ignites like a human torch, glides across the asphalt like he’s water skiing, or even throws himself off a platform for an angelic jump, captured in the panorama. In short: his job is waterfalls. His specialty: Castagne. However, his name never appears at the top of the poster, but rather in small print at the end of the credits. Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) is a Hollywood stuntman used to playing shadow men. He is nicknamed “The Fall Guy”, “the man who falls”… And who always stands up and gives a thumbs up, like all movie stuntmen do, to show after the word “cut” that everything is in order is.

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In The Guy case , this good-natured hero with deep-rooted humility, is recovering from an accident that almost cost him his career. A cynical and opportunistic producer tasks him with finding the star for whom he is the usual understudy and who has disappeared from the next blockbuster of her little protégé (Emily Blunt). As luck would have it, Seavers is crazy about this new director he’s been flirting with.

So much for the thin but solid plot of a film that offers pure entertainment. By adapting to the big screen The man who fellpretty vintage series from the 1980s Lee Majors (also known as The Three Billion Man), former stuntman David Leitch has created a film that is quite thrilling and whirling.

Ode to “little hands”

After making his debut in the 1990s in series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or in films like matrix or Fight ClubIn the 2000s, Leatch became the film’s stunt coordinator alongside his friend Chad Stahelski John Wick Since then, in 2014, he has focused his career on unusual action films that are as rhythmic as they are entertaining.

The Guy case is one of those feature films with imaginative choreography, where every action sequence produces pirouettes that are as funny as they are original. Under the guise of a blockbuster, the film asserts itself as a love letter dedicated to the invisible work of Hollywood stuntmen, or more generally as a sincere ode to all the technical teams and other “little hands” who created the magic of cinema yesterday and tomorrow.

Leitch even added the added element of a romantic comedy, with the two main characters constantly arguing with each other while simultaneously dying to hug. By evoking the light spirit of the comedies of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, later immortalized in… When Harry met Sally or The Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Guy case multiplies the references to Hollywood cinema from back then. After recording the Ken figure BarbieRyan Gosling takes on the role of the good-natured “action man” in a relaxed manner. In Hollywood he is the actor who comes at the right time…